The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-12-28
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Wei DIS III tlaG duClent ouOHSHoiu
OF RePublicanism. Massachusetts.
NJ Y Ind. NJ CT. Mass. Total.
1900. sea cas- 1seosa S. sal 49, 792 1o6, 5ss
1885, 1885, sss5 lssSs 1851 ss4 s ss
1872. 440 73Sl1S61 91,65650 638 47 902, 651
1875 4s9 207 08 OIL 103, 15o 06S 0098 1872
1880. 555 544232 1854 IN, 55o OH Hts ~. $50
1884. oo1lsss 46s1ss, seses l4e 7a4li 1s647
1t will be seen that for the twenty
years succeeding 1860 the Republican
vote showed an uninterrupted growth.
This, growth was naturally less in
1864, because of the war, than in 1868,
and was again less in 1872 than in 1868,
because, after the October elections Of
the former year had insured Greeley's
overwhelming defeat, the Republicans
were under no necessity of polling
full vote in November. But aside from
the two exceptional contests of 1864
and 1872, it is obvious that the Repub-
lican vote in these five States was in
creasing at the rate of more than 100,,
600 every four years, the growth from
1872 to 1876 being 107, 1871, and from
1876 to 1880, 130,7O7. Each State
showed a remarkable steadiness in,
growth. New York increased her Re-
publican vote from 1872 to 1876 by 49,
469. and from 1876 to 1880 by sc, 337;
Indiana, by 21,864 in the first period
and "a, 1853 in the second; New Jersey,
by 1861 and 17,oSs; Connecticut, by
1896 and S,o57; and Massachusetts,, by
16, sol and 1912.
Beginning with the campaign which
resulted in Lincoln's election. down to
and including that in which Garfield
was the successful nominee, the Re
publican party had appealed to the
country with honest candidates upon
a pla torn of sound principles. The
result was steady and rapid growth
in its numbers, averaging from ten to
fifteen per cent. every four years in
States like those we have cited, where
a large proportion Of the voters are
not held fast by party bonds. If the
campaign of 1884 had been made upon
the same basis as previous ones, the
Republican vote might have shown a
marked gain in each of these States
and aggregated at least 1850, 600.
But new policy was adopted. A
tainted candidate was selected who, it
was known and conceded, would re-
pei many old voters who had supported
Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Garfield, as
well as many young voters whose edu-
cation and environment inclined
them to support a Republican nominee
Of the old type; but who, it was
claimed, could poll vast number of
votes drawn from the most ignorant
and fantastic elements of the Democrat
ic party. He did draw those votes. His
friends assert, and his opponents do
not question, that he received 10000
Irish Democratic votes in New York
City and many thousands more in
Brooklyn and other large cities of this
State, not to speak Of many thousands
more in New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Indiana. But where
did the gain of these tens of thousands
of Democratic votes, which Garfield
had not secured, put BlaineP In New
York State Garfield had polled 66, 337
votes more than Hayes, and secured
21,O33 plurality; Blaine polled only
CAST more than Garfield, and was
beaten by d, 047 plurality. In Indiana
Garfield had polled 24,153 votes more
than Hayes, and secured 6, 642 plurality.
Blaine polled only 6,299 more than
Garfield, and was beaten by 6,527
plurality. In New Jersey Garfield
had polled 1908 votes more than
Hayes, and reduced the Democratic
plurality to only 2,o1o; Blaine polled
only 2,S11 more than Garfield, and
allowed the Democratic plurality to
rise to 4, 412. In Connecticut Garfield
had polled 8,0S7 votes more than
Hayes, and secured 1855 plurality;
Blaine reduced the Republican vote
from 67,071 to 65,923, and was beaten
by 1875 plurality. In Massachusetts
Garfield had polled 1912 votes more
than Hayes, and secured SO, 245 plural
ity, with clear majority over all of
4S. 1893; Blaine reduced the Republican
vote from 165, 205 to LAG, 724, and had
only 24.372 plurality, while he fell
1884 short of any majority at all.
Thus in three of the five States Blaine
had gained only trifie over Garfield,
and in the other two had actually lost,
so that the aggregate Republican vote
in them, which normal growth should
have carried up to at least 1,250, 900
in 1884. was only l,136. ATT, against /,
14D. $50 in 1880. Such figures as these
draw their own moral N Y. Evening
Post.
And now the Grand Army Re-
publicans are asserting that Logan's
mantle. will fall upon Governor For.
aker. Logan's mantle will flap around
the heels of Joseph Benson Foraker
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